The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-02
Rancho AND RANGE.
The New Disease Among the
Range Horses.
THE AMERICAN BEEF POOL
The Refrigerator Question Again
Consldered-The Horse Market-A
Phenomenal Pacer-Turf Talk

RheoRrs from the officers of the
/ American Beef Pool indicate that
enough cattle have been pledged to
m axe the trial shipments this fall over
| 80 900 head. They should be increased
| to 90 900 so as to give basis for study
| ing all the questions contingent to the
! plan, This number will enable western
shippers to solve the complex question
of how best to market the beef product.
Ed.
! EVERY western ranchman who is pre-
pared to hay-feed the whole or part
of his beef steers should do so the COM
| ing winter. Cattle fatened on our
western native hay stand the long haul
TO market as well as those fed on corn,
and the presumption is greatly in
favor of enough better prices in the late
winter or early spring to justify the
! holding oYer.-N. W. Live Stock Journal.
Dr.. d HOLLOWAY, the Territorial veteri-
nary surgeon, has returned to Helena
from Gainesville, where he has been in
vestigating the reported disease among
The range horses. He pronounces the
sickness an enzootlc malignant fever.
From its being described as an enzootic
! it will be understood that it is local in
character and not contagious, but eff
! fects large numbers of horses from
! some cause of local origin not immedi
ately discoverable. He thinks the
fatalities have been quite large, but
from the fact that the horses are on the
range it is difficult to determine to what
extent deaths have occurred. It is also
difficult to treat these wild range horses.
Affected animals that have been taken up
and are sufficiently docile for treatment
have done very well. DR.. Holloway
does not think this disease will last
long nor spread much farther. BE is
also inclined to believe that it is the
same disease that affected the horses on
Len Lewis ranch.-Bhllngs Gazette.
SpAYINe heifers in the west is still go
ing on. Nevada leads in the matter,
bat Idaho, Utah and Wyoming have
done considerable of this unsexing.
Texas, also, has spayed large numbers.
This process, says az exchange, will in
crease the beef output two years hence,
but later on it will cause heavy deficit.
1t looks now as if the practice would be
continued in order to prevent the over
crowding of the ranges. Spaying in
creaseS the hardness of the animal and
makes the heifer stock even better rust
lers than the steers. They also fatten
more readily and this fact will probably
cause more and more of the work TO be
done.
THE Range Journal says there are now
enough cattle on feeding farms in Colo
RADIO to keep Bag refrigerating estab-
lishment running The year around. If
the man who wrete that item would
take the trouble to investigate and learn
the facts he would talk differently. 1t
may be, however, that his idea Of q
big" concern is not what ours is. There
are not to-day, in all Colorado, beef
steers enough that will go on feed in the
corrals this autumn, to supply thirty
head per day to refrigerator During
last winter the Denver butchers could
not secure half enough fat cattle in the
State to supply their wants. Several
thousand head of corC-fed beeYes were
received from Kansas and Nebraska,
and we know of about 1000 head of hay
fed steers being purchased by these
same Denver butchers in Wyoming and
Utah TO help them out. Colorado ShoalG
hayfeed $1,000 or 10000 steers every
winter, but she does not feed one half of
this number. Refrigeration plants VIII
come when you get the all-the-year
around supplies, but that time lacks 3 |
good deal of having come. Encoursse |
your people to feed, but do not try 70 |!
Inveigle some poor Tor rich) cuss INTO |
building pacSing houses before the peo-
pie are ready to furnish him supply. |
TaIs week We have no change 10 re- |
port in our horse market. There has |
been just about the same amount of |
stock sold as during the previous weeks.
Prices ruled about the same, but if any
change it Tas a little lower. The fol /
lowing are representative sales by our
leading commission dealers: G. A.
Hoover sold two cars mares at SIS; two
cars mares, $l2 so; one car mares. SIS.
two cars young mules, S25. Emil Myer
sold two cars mares at SIS; two cars
mares, SIT; two cars mares, $l1; four
cars horses and mares mixed, $3.50;
TWO cars mares, SIS; opegrade stallion,
$3.50; two American jacks, $500; one
Norman stallion, $500. Chavez, NORM
& Co. sold fourteen saddle horses at $2i;
eleven mules, $2S.2 one car horses and
mares, $13 80; one car mares, $I3; one
ear mares and horses, $1l; two cars
mares, $11.50; TWO cars horses and
$3.50; one car mares and horses mixed,
JIG; one car mares, $I6; two cars OF
mares and horses, $14; one car mares
md horses, Sill: one car mares, S11.50,-
an=Antonio (Tex.) .Stoc&maa.
ANOTHER phenomenal PAGER has de-
Yeloped. A number Of sporting men
rent out to Omaha q few days ago to
re the performance of an unknown !
,scer named q Bet, owned by John q.
Derby, of Chicago At the first trial, /
With running mate, U Bet made
nile III 2 :35. A second mile was made |
q 2:l31l, the horse breaking on the
and coming under the wire I
If his feet. On the third trial he made I
he mile in 2:13. Saturday, be at A
empted TO break the record of 2:l2, and |
is owner said he would have succeeded I
he had better running mate. The
ider was Toby Broderick. Erny has 4
efused $4,000 for the horse. and says {
e is willing to back him TO beat any
acer i'll the world in race with run [
lg mate. /
The Springfield Mass track talks of 4
wing $40 coo stake for trotters nexI
ear, having noticed that the big purse
{ Hartford always has about entries
nough to pay the expenses. Sc that
q % pQmnS IN at tho ooto an tho